Anglofonní krize v Kamerunu a Kamerunci: mezi sjednocením, začleněním a donucením

Mgr. Josef KUČERA

Disertační práce

The Anglophone Crisis and Cameroonians: between unification, incorporation, and coercion

Abstract:

The thesis examines the dynamics that contributed to the so-called Anglophone crisis, which erupted in Cameroon's Anglophone (Northwest and Southwest) regions (Noso) after more than fifty years of relative tranquillity. The thesis employs critical geopolitical and critical anthropological approaches to assess the origins of Cameroon's Anglophone crisis, which started in 2016. The thesis identified key narratives via walk-a-long interviews and developed them overtime in the field. The research method is narrative research analysis, which uses critical frameworks of interpretation, such as unification, incorporation and coercion, to explain contemporary conflict. The narratives under investigation include ones that have been disseminated by various parties using various platforms, with a focus on newspapers, television and social media with focus on global narratives. The conclusion of the thesis is that various groups have different perspectives on the ongoing events in Anglophone regions. Important part of the thesis is also the evaluation of focus on certain events, when the significant stress of global media lays in presidential elections and possible threats to statehood, instead of people-centred events.

Abstract:

The thesis examines the dynamics that contributed to the so-called Anglophone crisis, which erupted in Cameroon's Anglophone (Northwest and Southwest) regions (Noso) after more than fifty years of relative tranquillity. The thesis employs critical geopolitical and critical anthropological approaches to assess the origins of Cameroon's Anglophone crisis, which started in 2016. The thesis identified key narratives via walk-a-long interviews and developed them overtime in the field. The research method is narrative research analysis, which uses critical frameworks of interpretation, such as unification, incorporation and coercion, to explain contemporary conflict. The narratives under investigation include ones that have been disseminated by various parties using various platforms, with a focus on newspapers, television and social media with focus on global narratives. The conclusion of the thesis is that various groups have different perspectives on the ongoing events in Anglophone regions. Important part of the thesis is also the evaluation of focus on certain events, when the significant stress of global media lays in presidential elections and possible threats to statehood, instead of people-centred events.

Keywords

Anglofonní krize, Anglofonní problém, Anti-geopolitika, Kamerun, Kritická geopolitika, Neformální instituce, Postkoloniální geopolitika

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 17. 10. 2022

Zveřejnit od: 31. 12. 2999

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedoucí: RNDr. Tomáš Hoch, Ph.D., RNDr. Tomáš Hoch, Ph.D.

OSTRAVSKÁ UNIVERZITA

Přírodovědecká fakulta

Doktorský studijní program / obor:
Geografie / Politická a kulturní geografie